The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1887-08-18
PERSONS AND THINGS.

Serg't Mason, made famous for having shot at
Guiteau during his trial for the murder OF President
Garfield, and who was confined in the Albany
peniientiary for some time. has become a prosper
Gus and very quiet farmer In Orange County, Nir-
gina. He, with Betty and several babies, is re-
ported to be comfortable in all respects.
duluth gamblers have been officially notified
quit the city under penalty of prosecution There
are so or 75 of them To whom the notice applies.
Green corn sells mt 20 cents dozen ears at Salt
Lake City. Gentiles go for the roasting-ears, but
the Mormons touch il with fear and trembling. It
was green corn that killed old Brigham Young,
prophet as he was.-Virginia (NeU.l Enterprise.
Some of these days the American pistol will
be introduced into French dueling warfare, and
then somebody will get hurt.-ChicagO Tribune.
Help one another" works well enough every
where except at the table of a well-flled boarding
house.-G Adams Messenger
Two insane persons. occupying the same cell,
were cured by a shFewd physician in a curious way.
Each of the unfortunate men was privately in
trusted with the care of the other. and was made
To believe that, while he himself was regarded as
and active use of their mental faculties in this
work both were eventually restoreda and discharged
sane.
Where one person Is drowned at sea, 800 are
killed on land.
Some one suggests that a bell-punch should be
attached to contribution boxes.
= The Houston Cfex.l Herald pictures the
nights of moral courage, as follows: In speaking
OF cheek ones mind naturally reverts to the dr,:m
mer. the sewing machine agent and the lightning
rod man. but all these fade into unutterabie insig-
nihcance when compared to the young man who
can calmly sit in church by the side of his best
girl" and never drop a nickle in the missionary
box.
"A Wliamsport physician says there's money
in his coughers--W -WHLiGmspOrt (Pd.) Sun.
"A man in Clare was told that dogs would not
go mad II given plenty of water. He threw his
neighbors dog into the weI.-DetrOit Tribune.
= In the bright lexicon of speculation there is
nothing so uncertain as a sure thing.-HarpeT's s
Bdzdr.
1t isn't the number Of immigrants who reach
these shores which is affecting the country so
much as how they behave after they get here.
They all seem To want to start a saloon run for
office.-Detroit Free Press
Col. Perkins. the very clipper oldest inhabi-
tant of Norwich. expects to see 100 for" he re-
marks. very few people die at co. Waterbury
4TnericGn.
- -Pedestrian-Nadam, a boy who am told is
your son has Just thrown q stone at me, causing a
wound that is very painful. What are you going
to do about it? Mother-I don't know have you
tried arnica?-Tid- Bis.
Train up a child in the way he should 20"
and keep a little ahead of him in the same way
during the training, to be sure he goes.-NeV Or
leans Pieaytne.
- BY examining the tongue Of a patient physi-
clans find out the disease of the body and philOso-
pliers the disease OF the miud.-Chieag0 LfUjng
Church
1t is true that doctors disagree, but they don't
disagree half so much as their medicines do.-BHr-
Lingion Free Press.
FI.sI1 rs Iat restsurateur on sixth avenue W no
insists that all his walters shall be fat and sleek
"Why?" he repeated the other day. well, L be-
lieve that customers are attracted by who have
the appearance of being well fed Besides fat wait
are not so irritable as lean ones and are more
obliging. My fat walters have done much to adj
vertise my grub-Ns'O York Sun.